Internal DHS texts show how a key ICE report was delayed for months amid frustrations, edits and what one former official says is an attempt to cook the numbers.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a House Homeland Security Committee hearing on "Worldwide Threats to the Homeland" on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 15, 2022.
However, even after the first week of January, ICE officials still believed it was imminent and were prodding for a DHS signoff. "Will not be tomorrow, roll [out] plan is not close to going to [Front Office]. Will need to go to counselors and [Office of General Counsel] for review before I can get it to FO. my hope is to send it to them by EOD tomorrow.""The rollout and report are back w/DHS," the first official replies."We now wait!"On Jan. 24, what appears to be a DHS official texting an ICE official seeking"numbers" -- believed to be arrest and deportation numbers -- for"S1.
"Maybe I mistook [redacted] saying [redacted] is getting before everyone else so he could use the numbers for his [Mayorkas] story," the first official says. Fox reached out to ICE and DHS about the contents of the communications. An ICE spokesperson told Fox that they had nothing else to add. The report immediately drew additional criticism about the Biden administration’s narrowed ICE priorities -- which made officers focus on recent border crossers, national security threats and"aggravated felons." The report touted what it saw as a success of the policy in that it claimed that arrests of aggravated felons had doubled over the prior year. Those priorities have since been blocked by a federal court and will be decided by the Supreme Court next year.
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